Bayesian analysis of animal movements related to factors at herd and between herd levels: Implications for disease spread modeling

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 230-242

  Lindström, Tom ^a   Sisson, Scott A ^b   Lewerin, Susanna Stenberg ^c   Wennergren, Uno ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal databases; Animal movements; Contact structure; Hierarchical Bayesian; Indicator variable; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRANSPORTATION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 78951480665     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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